Confirmed: All Anime Opening Credits Are the Same [Video]
Monday, November 29th, 2010I’ve long claimed that anime is nonsensical, boring, and ridiculous. And I’m happy to admit when I’m wrong: I mistakenly failed to mention that anime is also hilariously derivative. Derek Lieu sampled the opening credits from over 80 different anime to illustrate that Japanese animators have even less originality than a Hello Kitty backpack.
Size Does Matter: SDF-1 Macross Wedding Cake [Geeky Cake]
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Sure, it’s impressive, but doesn’t making a giant, anime-inspired cake the overwhelming centerpiece of your wedding glorify the practices of poor communication, disproportionate emotionality, and inexplicable behavior? Is that really the tone you’re trying to set for your marriage? Of course, anime also celebrates the enthusiastic and constant display of breasts and cleavage, so if [...]
Twitter Link Sampler – Week Ending July 31, 2010
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Follow my Twitter profile or the GWS Facebook Page. Next to staring at the sun, it’s the surest way to get rid of any lingering images of nutty anime cosplay kids from Comic-Con. I want everyone in this picture to lose. http://bit.ly/9k6dGa #WeirdoAnimeKids Screw Chuck Norris. Seriously. Why? Because Charles Bronson, that’s why. (Video) http://bit.ly/c9QD3b For a very brief [...]
Howl’s Moving Castle Papercraft Well Worth the Death of Ninety-Seven Trees
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Flickr user papekura is quite the papercraft artisan, as you can see in her photostream. But this model inspired by Howl’s Moving Castle–one of the few, delightful Japanese anime flicks that doesn’t confuse me to the point of eye-crossing exhaustion–more-than-stretches expectations for what can be produced with: …a lot of x-acto knife blades, tons of [...]
